New Updates to the Multimedia SDK

LEAD Technologies has worked hard on its Multimedia SDK over the past few months, adding many new features and improvements. This plethora of updates spans across the entire gamut of technology within the Multimedia SDK including playback, conversion, codecs and much more.

FLV playback and decoding improvements

Increased decoding and encoding speed

Faster seeking in large files

Improved loading speed for FLV files without duration timestamps

Improved playback and conversion of concatenated files

Support for reading and writing the discontinuity flag

Detect concatenated files

More efficient memory usage and disk swapping in LEADTOOLS multiplexers

Added support for playing RTP streams with MPEG-2 packets

Added support for playing audio from WebM demultiplexer

New options for controlling h.264 hardware acceleration

Added support for styling individual words with the Text Overlay filter

New demo showing how to implement custom video rendering such as GDI or OpenGL (available in C++, C# and VB.net)

Added ability to create 8-bit video with custom palette

Various new features and enhancements for the following codecs, multiplexers, demultiplexers and filters

MPEG-2

h.264

AAC

WMV

MPG

AVI

OGG

DVD

How to Get These Updates

All of these features are free for all current Version 18 customers and are available in the latest Multimedia SDK download. We hope you are as excited about these updates as we are. The majority of these features were added as a result of customer feature requests, so keep them coming!